Definition of "extrinsically" [extrinsically]

• In an extrinsic manner (adverb)

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• "Similarly, thoughts themselves are not intrinsically extended or subject to movement, but they are so extrinsically, that is, as an effect of the operations of the sensory organs of the body."
• "The local disposition itself is not intrinsically a pole, or ten feet long, but it is so extrinsically, that is, by thought."
• "My argument will be that modern liberal cultures are in a bind insofar as they shifted the basic framework for understanding authority from a context in which wisdom and virtue provided the norms for legitimate authority to a context in which dominative power became normative and legitimacy was defined only extrinsically."